23 Quotes by Tom Conti

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn’t want to go and see kids.

It’s all good fun – television and movies and so on – but the good thing in theatre is there’s nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

I like writing songs – I keep saying that one day I’ll do something with them, but I haven’t yet.

My temper manifests itself when I can’t find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

I’ve always felt like a foreigner wherever I’ve lived. I don’t feel much towards my Italian or Scottish roots, although I do cook the pasta at home.